Joe Biden has been caught lying on the anniversary of 9/11 when claiming he recalled “standing there the next day and looking at the building” in New York – when in fact he was actually in Washington DC.
President Biden has sparked fury after becoming the first president since the horror events from 22 years ago not to spend the anniversary at one of the three sites of plane crashes.
But he has now claimed he was at the Twin Towers on September 12, 2001 – the day after the terrorism attacks – when his own autobiography and video from the Senate floor shows him in the nation’s capital.
Biden, who was Senator of Delaware at the time, said from the floor of the Senate the day after the attacks: “Some have said yesterday and today all has changed for America.
“I pray that is not true. I pray that is not true. The one thing we can not allow to change are the values upon which this country is built. For if that were to occur, then they would be able to declare victory, genuine victory.”
At the time Biden, who at that time was also chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was pictured on 9/11 speaking to reporters in front of the Capitol in Washington DC.
In his 2007 book Promises to Keep, he said he was in Washington DC the day after the attack, writing: “I headed back to the Capitol the next morning.”
Archived CSPAN footage shows Biden speaking from the Senate floor on September 12, 2001.
He had also said in his speech: “This is not a struggle about ideology, this is not a struggle over religion.
“This is a struggle between civilization and barbarity. Let there be no doubt the United States and the civilized nations of the world will unite and win this struggle.”
But on Monday – the 22-year-anniversary of 9/11 – Biden told a hugely different story about his whereabouts the day after.
He said: “Ground Zero in New York – I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. And I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell.
“It looked so devastating because the way you could, from where you could stand.”
In fact, Biden visited Ground Zero nine days after the attacks on September 20, 2011, and was pictured touring the site with fellow senators.
However, on Monday, the president also claimed he saw a “fireball” at the Pentagon on that fateful day, when in his own book he described it as a “a brown haze of smoke.”
Biden was on his way home from a five-day trip to Asia and was speaking to troops in Anchorage, Alaska, where he told them about his own memories from 22 years ago.
He said: “The plume of fire that shot up in the sky in Pentagon – I remember seeing as I got off the Amtrak train on my way to work in the United States Senate.”
But in his own autobiography, he wrote: “I could see a brown haze of smoke hanging in the otherwise crystal-clear sky beyond the Capitol dome.”
Follow our social media accounts here on facebook.com/ExpressUSNews and @expressusnews
